Category: News

Tickets are now on sale for charity concert Love In Mind raising funds for The Harvey Parker Trust. This new charity has been founded in memory of 20-year-old Harvey Parker to support young artists experiencing mental health issues. Parker was a gender fluid, autistic, mixed-race musician who took their own life in December 2021. Led by Mark Rylance… Continue reading Mark Rylance has Love In Mind

A stage show charting the careers and relationship between Hollywood mother and daughter Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli is on a UK tour to Lancaster, Bolton, Lowestoft, Oldham, Barnstaple, Sale, Ulverston, Ilkley, Cheltenham, Milford Haven and Cardiff. It’s created and written by West End performer Emma Dears who appears as Liza Minnelli, with Francis Goodhand… Continue reading Judy & Liza on tour

This Town is a modern-day epic narrative poem, performed and written by Rory Aaron (BBC New Creatives, Southbank Poetry Collective). An ode to home, it uses spoken word to transport audiences to a post-industrialised landscape. Against the backdrop of a cost of living crisis and a looming recession, it looks at young people’s experience of… Continue reading This Town in Manchester

Dancing on Ice finalist and Coronation Street star Faye Brookes joins the cast of Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom The Musical as part of a 10-month tour which comes to The Lowry, Salford June 26 to July 1. The musical, based on film of the same name, is directed by Craig Revel Horwood, who co-choreographs with Strictly’s creative director Jason Gilkison. Faye… Continue reading Faye joins Ballroom cast

Tennessee Williams’s Cat On A Hot Tin Roof gets a brand-new production at Manchester Royal Exchange March 24– April 29. Bayo Gbadamosi takes on the role of Brick, with Ntombizodwa Ndlovu, a Zimbabwean-British actress, singer and graduate from the Manchester School of Theatre, as Maggie ‘the cat’ joined by Patrick Robinson as Big Daddy and Jacqui Dubois… Continue reading Cat’s back at Royal Exchange

Following a four-week run at The Lowry, the National Theatre’s production of The Ocean at the End of the Lane returns to Salford this October. Based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Joel Horwood and directed by Katy Rudd, this adventure of fantasy, myth and friendship is currently on tour visiting 29 towns… Continue reading The Ocean returns to Salford

New musical champion Katy Lipson is to hold an open pitching day in London to hear new musical work. The show to be presented can be at any stage of development but must include at least one new song. Aria Entertainment producer Lipson and the company’s literary manager Tom Ramsay will attend the presentations. New… Continue reading Open pitch event for new musicals

A new 250-seat covered, open air theatre is being opened for summer season shows in Banstead, Surrey. To be called The Lavender Theatre, the venue will host musicals and plays against a farmland setting, and the site offers a coffee bar, a full service glasshouse restaurant and picnic spaces. The opening production is to be Irving… Continue reading New Surrey summer season venue goes great guns

Magician Magical Bones brings his show Soulful Magic to Lancaster Grand Theatre March 24, Lytham’s Lowther Pavilion March 26 and The Lowry in Salford April 5. Following a successful run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the breakdancing magician and finalist of Britain’s Got Talent is on a national tour with his unique, high-energy magic show. Bones intertwines illusions with stories, music,… Continue reading Three dates for Magical Bones

Simon Beaufoy’s play The Full Monty bares nearly all at Winter Gardens Blackpool from December 5–9 as part of the UK tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film. Casting to be announced soon. It remains very much of our time, amidst a cost-of-living crisis. Gaz and his mates are down on their luck and… Continue reading Full Monty for Blackpool